Personally, when I gauge my own performance, I prefer to do it against what's possible for a given board rather than what sorts of scores I get on average, because it's possible some board just has a different limit on how well you can do. Leaderboards don't necessarily need to be the solution. Average scores from other players would work just as well for me. I generally am not personally motivated to try and top leaderboards. I am however motivated strongly by beating averages. That's all just my own taste though.
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Just trying to dig into your goal some more, I'm a bit confused. You're generally not motivated to top leaderboards, but you'd like to beat averages. Do you mean, a leaderboard that would average the daily scores, kind of like the zachtronic games, rather than trying to compare directly against the best outcome of a daily? So you'd be comparing against the average of those that submitted their score to the daily?
Yeah. I initially said leaderboard because it's the standard way of letter people compare scores that also accomplishes what I'd personally like. I don't use leaderboards like most people. I scroll down quite a ways through them to get a sense of what counts as a high score, not necessarily the best scores, and a sense of the curve of scores so I can roughly estimate how I did. A simple Daily Average accomplishes what I want far better, although I'm sure plenty will still want to know they got the best score possible.
Although ultimately I advise you not introduce anything that goes against what you personally are trying to accomplish with your game. Don't muddle your game by taking every person's suggestion in a doomed attempt to appeal to everyone. Daily Average would make the game more appealing to me, but if you want to avoid making players feel pressured, then you might want to say screw what Enchessency wants haha.
Thanks so much for taking the time to really detail what you were meaning and how you interact with leaderboards yourself.
Appreciate your understanding that it's not always the right choice to add in every request to a game, but regardless I really wanted to understand your perspective better to take that consideration alongside what other opinions may arise. That way I could more thoroughly consider if some additions could improve the game for the majority of people or not, and see if I could design it to try and catch both sides.
For now I'm sorry to say it would be safest to assume it won't be added, but if it is I'll have been able to take all this into consideration.